Chapter 175
When the Tianjia civilization was still at its peak of glory, the current Lost Star Zone was not yet called the Lost Star Zone, but was called the 'Tianjia Star Region'.
As a star field directly under the jurisdiction of the Tianjia Empire, it spans tens of thousands of light years and is the largest civilized star field in the entire Milky Way... There are countless celestial bodies of various types in the star field, and there are tens of billions of star systems.
Although not every star system with such a large number is suitable for habitation, the huge base still brings a very considerable number of habitable planets to the Tianjia civilization.
With the civilization's home planet, the Empire's Central Galaxy, at its center, the vast star region beyond the main star zone was divided into eighty-eight star zones. Within these zones, numerous star systems were categorized as resource-rich and habitable, with each further divided into different levels.
The Tianjia star region has such a vast star region, all thanks to their continuous conquest of other civilizations - more than 90% of the area was obtained after the destruction of other civilizations.
With this said, it seems that the Tianjia civilization is very brutal?
In fact, it is not only brutal as it sounds. Qi Heng, who thought he was playing a game and single-handedly led the development of Tianjia civilization, deserved to be shot a hundred times for what he did.
...Civilization destroyer, biological exterminator, civilization slaughterer, galactic disaster, etc., each of these titles belonging to the Lord of Tianjia is made up of the corpses of dead civilizations and the flesh and blood of intelligent races.
But there is also one very important point.
That is, the harmony between civilizations in the early years was not as good as it is now, and the overall environment was based on the principle of respecting the strong.
I don't know if it was due to good feng shui in the early years, but in any case, when the Tianjia civilization was born, the number of civilizations capable of interstellar travel in the Milky Way was truly "as numerous as stars."
——The development of civilization requires a lot of resources, and the more civilization develops and advances to a higher level, the more resources are needed.
Under such conditions, civilizations that aspire to advance to a higher level will not miss the opportunity to strengthen themselves.
Even if strengthening themselves means destroying intelligent races that have developed civilizations like themselves, they will never stop.
At that time, weak civilizations had only two options.
Either strengthen yourself or rely on a more powerful civilization. If you choose neither, there will be only one outcome - being destroyed by a civilization more powerful than you.
In the final analysis, Qi Heng just chose the one he liked between the two paths.
It is difficult to say who is right or wrong in the civilization that was born in such a dark era.
It's just that only the fittest survive.
That is to say, the current structure of the Milky Way galaxy is basically established. The old civilizations have signed alliances to check and balance each other, and ensure that latecomers cannot shake their supreme position... This is how peace gradually emerged.
To put it bluntly, which civilization that has survived to this day was not as bloody in the past as the Tianjia civilization that was nailed to the history books?
The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. Ten thousand years ago, the Tianjia civilization lost everything, so that the civilization itself and the current Lost Star Zone were divided up as spoils by the victors of that year.
This naturally includes the main star area that was heavily protected and defended back then.
The main star area is also known as the central star area and the Tianjia main star area. The range with a radius of sixty light years radiating outward from the mother star system is counted within the main star area. The entire main star area is divided into inner and outer ring areas with the Beta Star (five star systems) as the boundary.
The inner ring is mainly composed of the Tianjia galaxy where the mother star is located and the eight galaxies of Tianyun, Tianwu and Tianyu directly under the management of the mother star, plus some prosperous galaxies and resource galaxies with habitable planets.
The outer ring is similar, but contains more galaxies.
The reason why Beta is used as the dividing line is that when observing the stars on summer nights on the Tianjia star, you can see Beta, which is about 17 light-years away from the Tianjia star system, and four other bright stars not far from it, named Beta I, III, IV, and V.
From a distance, connecting them together forms a slightly curved arc, like a galaxy separating the inner and outer areas of the main star region.
Based on the use of the hyperspace channel network, the Tianjia civilization interconnected the wormholes in different galaxies. Within the Tianjia star field... the closer to the main star area, the more nodes there are on the channel network. It can be said that all the wormholes in the surrounding area that are suitable for direct connection are connected as nodes.
The wormhole nodes outside the planetary belt of the Tianyun galaxy can not only lead to the nearest Tianyu galaxy, but also to more than a dozen galaxy nodes such as Tianlan and Tianwu.
It can be said that the eight words "the shortest distance between two points is a line segment" are used to the extreme.
Unfortunately, when the Tianjia civilization disappeared, a large number of nodes were destroyed, and some galaxies were simply blocked.
Later generations would just pick and use what they could use, and would not spend a lot of money to repair and reconnect unless it was absolutely necessary. After all, the number of civilizations that had this technology could be counted on one hand.
The Tianyun Galaxy, which is under the charge of the Ikar civilization, is lucky. It still retains a complete wormhole node, and the destination galaxy it leads to is the "Betelgeuse" in the inner ring of the five star systems.
——That is to say, as long as you pass through this wormhole node, you can instantly cross a distance of fifteen light years and come to the Beta Star Galaxy from the Tianyun Galaxy deep in the inner ring of the main star region.
According to the information Qi Heng currently has, they can only officially embark on the return journey after crossing Beihe Er.
As early as the last time A0 hacked into the central control computer database of the fleet led by Major General Dorn, he already knew the fleet's route.
...The next node after the survey fleet passes through Beta Virgo is a galaxy once famous for its commercial prosperity, and the next one is a galaxy that was once habitable... They will sail day and night until they pass through the sixth space node and then stop to rest.
From the star map, if we only calculate the straight-line distance on the two-dimensional star map, the outer trading area from the main star zone to the lost star zone is nearly 3,500 light years.
Even if the fleet has enough energy for navigation, the spacecraft, which are only equipped with the top technology of the fourth-level civilization, and the weak bodies of the Ikar people cannot withstand more wormhole node jumps. Sufficient rest time must be given before the next stage of navigation can be carried out.
In the quiet office, Qi Heng looked through the coordinate data sent back by A0-03, and asked in his mind what the calculation results of A0 were.
[The current system's energy reserves are insufficient to cover the energy points required for this transmission.]
Qi Heng did not feel disappointed, as this was within his expectations.
The remaining energy in the system is only over 10,000 points. If one wants to teleport to A0-03, which is 17 light years away... and is still moving away from him, it is bound to be insufficient.
He stood up, and the noise of pushing the chair attracted the attention of Lan Yi and the others.
"I have something to do, so I'll be out for a while." Qi Heng said as he strode out, completely unaware of Chu Xiu's hesitant expression next to him.
I don’t know if the miners have dug enough in one night. I just hope that A0-03 can be used for positioning and teleportation this time.
He walked to a deserted place and asked A0 to teleport him to the TYC8 resource nest.
Qi Heng appeared in the insect nest where the sky crystals were stored and asked, "The distance is 17 light years. How many energy points will it take to teleport?"
[17.5 light years, duration about 0.2 seconds, energy consumption about 26.25w.]
His hand trembled as he touched Tianjing. 26w energy points in 0.2 seconds, robbing money is not even as fast as this.
But there is no way, what needs to be spent still has to be spent, and this expense cannot be avoided in any way.
Whether A0-03 is allowed to leave with the transport ship or not requires a teleportation. If A0-03 is not allowed to leave with it, there is not even a teleportation coordinate.
Without A0-03 in the investigation fleet, once they leave the Tianyun galaxy and are out of the range of civilization surveillance, they will completely lose their trace.
"It seems that one insect nest is not enough." We need to run a few more.
The previously stockpiled mineral crystals were either directly converted into sky crystals or transported away as minerals. It has only been a short time, and even if the miners are more capable, they cannot stockpile many mineral crystals in a short time.
In this way, Qi Heng looted eight insect nests and barely made up an integer - 270,000 energy points.
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